[malicesprings] Re: Update - website, white star, derby names and more!

  • From: Gaynor Ramsay <gaynor_r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <malicesprings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:20:42 +0930

You can join Skate Aus yourself, but it only lasts untill then end of the 
calander year. We will join as a league and we can all join in Jan, if you want 
to wait untill then.

G

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:08:42 +0930
Subject: [malicesprings] Re: Update - website, white star, derby names and more!
From: downingrosie@xxxxxxxxx
To: malicesprings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dudes, 
I'm thinking of joining as an individual with Skate Australia... for some 
reason I feel the need to sound that out with y'all...? 
Could be cos it's 1am and I've been working many many hours now...
Great. Sad I couldn't skate tonight, missed yas.
xxx rosie


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Lisa Chin <cormorant_80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:











Hi All,

The communications committee (currently Jen and Lisa) met for the first time on 
Wednesday night so here's an update on the website, white star assessment, 
derby names and membership.


 


Website
    - Domain name purchase. There are three obvious options (in order of our 
preference): malicespringsrollerderby.com, malicesprinsgrdl.com and msrdl.com. 
If we are concerned about people not finding the site we can always purchase 
more than one domain name and redirect from there to the real site. Please let 
us know if you have any suggestions or what your preference is for this by 
Thursday 25th November.

    - Hosting options are still being considered and will cost about $60-100 a 
year, if you have any recommendations please send through; at this stage it's 
looking like we'll be using Wordpress as a CMS.
    - Site build: Jen has done some awesome work (Go Jen!!) starting a website 
build (https://sites.google.com/site/malicespringsrdl/) and we will continue 
working on this. Please take a look and send through any suggestions, there's 
still quite a bit of work to do getting content together and finalising the 
structure but we're on the way. With regards to content you'll notice there is 
a featured "Derby girl" and we'll be taking photos on Sunday 5th December at 
training to use in this section. We'd also like to include a short Bio, so 
start thinking about yours - it doesn't need to be long and can include info 
like derby name and number, length of time you've been skating, achievements to 
date, why you Derby, brag about your skates. Have a look at some on the Rocky 
Mountain Roller Girls site to see what they've done. We'd like to collect these 
on 5th December as well. 

For those of you who couln't make it to our derby watching session at Annie's 
the date for the big get together planning day has been set as Sunday 5th 
December from midday until it's time to start training. Location yet to be 
specified so suggestions are welcome if someone has plenty of space at their 
house :)


White Star Assessment
    - For all those who would like to sit their white star assessment (or sit 
it again) before the end of the year the last assessment session for 2010 will 
be Sunday 28th November. There are four more training sessions to take 
advantage of between now and then so get your skates on! The training committee 
will need to select assessors for the white star assessment Sunday 28th 
November - if there are major issues with that date please select a new date 
and advise the league.

    - There was also a decision made at the derby watching session to continue 
with the three skate sessions a week but only have structured training with a 
designated trainer on Mondays and Thursdays and have both of these sessions 
from 7pm to 9pm. Sunday will become more of a free skate and will stick with 
the current time of 5pm to 8pm. The changes to the times will take place as of 
1st December.


Derby names
    - If you get your white star this year then the deadline to have your top 
three (and list order of preference) derby names is Monday 29th November so 
please email these through to Jen (j2garnett@xxxxxxxxx) AND Lisa 
(cormorant_80@xxxxxxxxx). They will be collated and sent to the master roster 
keepers for processing, check out the rules for selecting names here.


Membership
    - Paying MSRDL dues is also something to think about - especially if you 
have your white star now. We leave it with the finance committee to set a due 
date for payment and to think about how long people should skate with the club 
for before they have to pay dues. Money will go towards paying for paint so we 
can have a more permanent track, club membership in Skate Australia, website 
domain and hosting fees, and other ongoing costs.

    - If anyone is interested in joining Skate Australia as an individual Skate 
Australia have confirmed that if you pay the $50 fee now you will have 
membership until December 2011. Visit the Skate Australia website to find out 
about the benefits of membership. Their office will be closed over Christmas 
from 17th December so get in quick! We also need 10 individuals to join skate 
Australia before we can join as a league.


Logo
    - The logo may undergo a redesign so if you have any ideas of things to 
include or colour scheme please let us know.

So, in summary - as members of the league you need to:

1. Tell us which domain name you prefer and whether you think there is a need 
to purchase multiple domains and redirect from them to the main site - let us 
know by Thursday 25th November
2. Lock the 28th November in your date as white star assessment if you're 
taking it and let the training committee know you're planning to take the test

3. Start composing your bio for the website (due 5th December) and be prepared 
to have your "derby girl" photo taken that day as well 



4. Get your top three Derby names to us by 29th November
5. Start saving to pay league fees.
6. Start thinking about how you think about how you want to participate in the 
league and what decisions need to get made on Sunday 5th December - this even 
will need a couple of people to take the reins for that to organise an agenda 
etc? 


It's a busy time at the moment but this is your league and think of it as the 
storm before the summer lull. More to follow re. painting the track soon....

Happy skating!

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